Bláthnaid is an Irish artist, designer and art director based in Brooklyn, NY.
With 13 years experience in design and advertising, she has worked on award-winning campaigns for clients such as American Express, IBM, KLM, Sector SPDR ETs, Korea Tourism Organization, Switzerland Tourism and more.
As an artist, she is driven by a desire to create work that fosters human connection and facilitates intimate conversations. She is a long-time collaborator with Unqualified Design Studio. With them, she has worked on projects such as Brigid’s Crossing, a large-scale artwork at Burning Man in 2014, and Without Sin, an immersive theatre experience, which was accepted to the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2023, the world’s largest performance arts festival.
She is also a founding member and creative director of RUDE, a community arts collective based in Brooklyn, NY, focused on empowering women and non-binary people to tell their own stories through a collaborative art process.